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  <h1 class="Head">Local History</h1>
  <p class="Intro">The following preferences can be changed on the <a class="command-link" href=
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  Local History</strong></a> preference page.</p>
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          <p class="Para">Option</p>
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          <p class="Para">Description</p>
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          <p class="Para">Default</p>
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          <p class="Para">Limit history size</p>
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          <p class="Para">If enabled, then options below will be used to limit the local history size on disk.</p>
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          <p class="Para">Enabled</p>
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          <p class="Para">Days to keep files</p>
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          <p class="Para">Indicates for how many days you want to maintain changes in the local history. History state
          older than this value will be lost.</p>
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          <p class="Para">7 days</p>
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          <p class="Para">Maximum entries per File</p>
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          <p class="Para">Indicates how many history states per file you want to maintain in the local history. If you
          exceed this value, you will lose older history to make room for new history.</p>
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          <p class="Para">50 entries</p>
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          <p class="Para">Maximum file size (MB)</p>
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          <p class="Para">Indicates the maximum size of individual states in the history store. If a file is over this
          size, it will not be stored.</p>
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          <p class="Para">1 MB</p>
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  <h3 class="related">Related reference</h3><a href="ref-6a.htm">Local History</a>
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